We had the opportunity to chat with Nikki Porcher of Buy From a Black Woman and learn more about what prompted her to lead in this way. Please tell our audience a little bit about you and your ...

She also helped pave the way by editing an anthology of Black women poets called Night Comes Softly. Amazingly enough, Nikki Giovanni never stopped writing. When she died, she was working on her ...

Nikki Giovanni, a poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, who emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s before honing a more tender, meditative style in best ...

“Nikki-Rosa,” for example, begins with an ostensible lament—“Childhood remembrances are always a drag / if you’re Black”—and ends with a defiant declaration of the poet’s subjecthood.

Her older sister, Gary Ann, nicknamed her Nikki. Soon after her birth, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Yolande and Gus began working as house parents in a school for Black boys, earning only ...